CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTED SPENDING IS COMING BACK?

posted by Memphis Morning News -
Nov 15, 2018

The old adages of "what goes around come around" and "nothing new under the sun," are probably doing just that. Hints in Washington suggest that "earmarks" as they are known to us, are really not just pet projects, but rather a means of support and representation of those constituents that sent them to Washington, DC, to do just that.

This sounds like a completely plausable thing to do to get monies for your states enhancement. So how did we get to a place of 'earmarks' and 'pork spending' being a bad thing for our representatives to do?

Was it the "Bridge to Nowhere "or the non transparency of the Bridge to Nowhere?"